On this day: October 2

POSTED: 10:23 PM PDT Oct 01, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Oct 01, 2012 

Charles Darwin returns home, Gandhi is born, "Peanuts" is published for the first time, Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court, and the Beltway sniper attacks begin, all on this day.

OTD October 2 - Graham Greene
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1904: Author Graham Greene ("The Power and the Glory," "The Third Man," "The Quiet American") is born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England.

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